To think this is a bit mad ?

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To say a 39 year old is 'Still young and doing great to be in such a managerial role at her young age' but to say a few days later about a 40 year old ' Yes, she's got many years of wisdom behind her and will be like a mother figure to the other workers.'
This was said by a colleague of mine. We work in party management and events for kids and adults.
Do you suddenly become an old lady at 40 or something ?

Yep - not just women mind, men also.

I'm 40, but now I'm a senior at work and sit with the old people.

Absolutely, one minute you're 39 and swinging from the chandeliers the next you're 40 and saying ooof when you sit down. Tragic really.

It's mad how people think

The ooof thing is sadly real though 😂

My husband is in his 50s and the people he works with are sometimes a lot younger.

One of them called him 'old timer' recently and another calls him a T-Rex because they think he's as old as a dinosaur.

Jokes on them, he's getting an 8k pay rise in the new year.

im 40 next year! Is this what I have to look forward too 😱

Could it not have been with reference to them as individuals, with perhaps different employment backgrounds and experience? I've got colleagues younger than me with much better chunkier experience with things despite the fact I've had a longer career overall.